Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website info & educational materials about black & female service members.
Some of the content was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor.
The content removal is part of #Trump’s effort to eliminate diversity, equity & inclusion in the military & throughout the federal government.
Approx 400,000 veterans are buried in the Army-run cemetery. #NaziShit #USPol #auspol
"Destroying VOA…is a national security issue. These entities, funded by the American people…among…most effective instruments of American soft power — a bridge to those who may never set foot on our soil, but understand our values because they heard them…" - @w7voa
https://www.steveherman.press/p/requiem-for-the-voice-that-carried
Ok hyperventilating. The Republicans stuck a clause in a procedural measure that declares the rest of 2025 to be ONE SINGLE DAY
#uspol
Why?? So they don't have the ability to cancel Trump's illegal tariffs
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-day-that-never-ends
@georgetakei
But 47 still has his phalanx of MAGA white nationalist “christians” as his sword & shield, right? He still touts that our nation needs “more God?”
The evil frightens me, the stupidity is contemptible, but the hypocrisy repulses me.
Fuck them. Giving their lifes for their country is the utter sacrifice and this is the reward? Can it get worse? A shame!
This country is being dismantled in no time and no one puts a stop to this madness… #usa #uspol https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114165560420754196
I am saying it once more.
If #academia and #highered do not QUICKLY develop a coordinated strategy of resistance, then MAGA will pick them off one by one.
“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a professor of classics at Columbia. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”
I love Canada for a lot of reasons but petty, passive aggressive moves like this make me proud.
Update. "Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History"
https://www.historians.org/news/aha-oah-joint-statement-on-federal-censorship-of-american-history/
"The American Historical Association (#AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (#OAH) condemn recent efforts to censor historical content on federal government websites, at many public museums, and across a wide swath of government resources…Policies that purge words, phrases, and content that some officials deem suspect on ideological grounds constitute a systemic campaign to distort, manipulate, and erase significant parts of the historical record. Recent directives insidiously prioritize narrow ideology over historical research, historical accuracy, and the actual experiences of Americans.
As the institution chartered by the US Congress for “the promotion of historical studies” and “in the interest of American history, and of history in America,” the American Historical Association must speak out when the nation’s leadership wreaks havoc with that history. So, too, must the OAH, as the organization committed to promoting “excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history.” It is bad enough to forget the past; it is even worse to intentionally deny the public access to what we remember, have documented, and have expended public resources to disseminate."
"To date, 11 organizations have signed on to the statement."
Gesetze gegen #Rollenspiel? In #uspol absolut. Ein Texanischer Abgeordneter hat den #FURRIES Act eingebracht: "Forbidding Unlawful Representation of #Roleplaying in Education and Schools" - verbietet absurdes (Menschen dürfen nicht aufs Katzenklo) und harmloses wie Rollenspiel "Tierlaute" oder Katzenohren - #DieSchwarzeKatze #DSK oder #DnD5e #Tabaxi oder #Pathfinder2E Amurrun wären in Schulen strafbar. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/gop-legislator-files-bill-to-stop-furries-from-using-litter-boxes-in-schools/ #pnpde
…hach ja, schuld sind ja immer die Andern. Egal ob KI oder beliebige Hightech oder sonstiges aktuelle Marketing-Frase zur Machtbestimmung.
»Künstliche Intelligenz – OpenAI fordert Deepseek-Verbot:
Während OpenAI mit seiner Forderung den Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums verhindern will, fordert Google die Aufhebung des Urheberrechts für KIs«
https://www.golem.de/news/kuenstliche-intelligenz-openai-fordert-deepseek-verbot-2503-194304.html
Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act
Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump administration to openly support Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to crack open Big Tech’s market power.
Update. "A Call for Harm Reduction Strategies"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/a-call-for-harm-reduction-strategies
"The new US presidential administration has launched an unprecedented assault on research and higher education. This isn’t just collateral damage from wide-ranging realignment of budgets, which would be bad enough, but an orchestrated attack on academic freedom, research funding, and the institutional autonomy that underpins intellectual progress…Resistance is most effective when collective action amplifies individual efforts rather than occurring in isolation. This means fostering more frequent and open dialogue across all sectors of the academic and research community [e.g. #libraries and #publishers]."
Update. "US Funding Cuts Imperil Open Infrastructure Globally"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/US-funding-cuts-imperil-open-infrastructure-globally
"The impacts of funding cuts to research in the US extend far beyond their immediate targets. We see a chain reaction that could indelibly alter the education and research landscape, including the future of open and sustainable research…So what is there to do?… Here are our three specific calls to action…"
@pluralistic I’m reading chapter 12 of Chokepoint Capitalism and it’s really sad to see how we are very far away from fair antitrust policies, especially now with an oligarchical government run by the Big Tech. It’s somehow disheartening.
#bigtech #monopoly #monopsony #uspol #ChokepointCapitalism #books #reading @bookstodon